Justice secretary Ken Clarke is expected to tell the Commons tomorrow that key concessions will be made in the drastic cuts planned for civil legal aid, sources have told Solicitors Journal.
The government's localism agenda and the proposed changes to the planning system continue to dominate the landscape, say Julian Boswall and Gary Soloman
The Ministry of Justice has been accused of playing “fast and loose†with the figures behind its civil legal aid cuts and underestimating the number of victims by more than 150,000.
With 5,000 green paper responses to pick through, legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly could be gone for some time. So to fill the awkward silence Solicitors Journal decided to run its own straw poll of lawyers' attitudes to the budget battle. Here are the results